Aerlingus AerClub/Avios

Only earns on EI/BA/AA

Another way to look at it is €2.50 in clubcard points gets you 600 avios or €250 spend gets you 600 points, which is the equivalent of 2.4 points per euro spent. Yes I'll get better value on B&Q (10 avios/€) or booking.com (6 Avios/€) but it's better than what I get in any other supermarket which is zero

I hadn't quite noticed just how crap the actual earn on flights was these days, until checking my account there.

Two nights in a budget Marriot sub-brand hotel has got me >2x the Avios than the actual EI flights to stay in said hotel.

Of course, a pair of Adidas runners got me more than the two of those combined. Really has become an online shopping points system.

Yeah, I was only looking at this yesterday! Making the majority of my avois on hotel bookings and Revolut. A few measly points on my recent flights.

I am sure it's asked before. If I book a avios flight (not credit card) can I cancel and get the full points back?

Due a trip and the fares are little high but my dates are not flexiable so would like a back up plan in place until they discount the fares.

The avios flight is not great value so prefer only to use if no other option.

I am looking at booking a flight to Europe and pay some of it with my Avios but I’ve run into an issue

on the App it allows me to pay with more Avios but there is no Revolut Pay option

on a web browser (chrome and Edge) it only allows me to pay with less Avios than the App and there is an option for Revolut Pay

I would rather pay with with more Avios and Revoult Pay (to get the extra Rev Pay Points)

Has anyone else experienced this or am I doing something wrong?

They must be feeling Revolut’s paid plans,especially ultra

Doesn’t come close,I mean U.S and UK cards are bonus’ing 10 times aer clubs pittance

Higher merchant / interchange fees really, not interest. The interest rates are similar on cards here and only idiots use expensive interest cards to get a tiny amount of points (and its still tiny compared to interest in the US). Credit cards should be paid off in full.

EU has capped the fees for personal cards, and that means that the range of goodies on personal cards will never be very high here.

Booking.com and Hotels.com now earn 8 avios per euro spent. That’s brilliant for me, I do a good bit of travelling and am earning a nice bit now because of that.

If you look at the price breakdown when this happens there is a "Booking.com pays" discount. You don't get that if you book through the Avios link. I find it's usually worth more than the value of the Avios. That discount is in a minority of cases though. Most of the time there's no difference in price.

Has anyone found on AerLingus reward seats that were available to a destination become unavailable. I would have assumed this meant the allocated avoid seats were gone but sometimes they randomly appear back hours/days later.

Is it someone holding the seats or is it just some bot in the background?

But there's only certain dates shown as available when filling out the form so presumably people are booking the same dates as me just getting in slightly ahead of me?

Also if the issue is the outbound flight why not give me the option just to change that instead of having to fill out the entire form again?

Edit: I presume you mean Santiago de Compostela in Spain, not the capital of Chile, as they are European Flights?

But on the form they show dates as not-available on the days they fly. This can be checked using their own website